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Art: plays Craft: reports Pleasure: bikes Spirit guide: Lazy Pig Ex: Prague Post, WHYY News, PS Notebook Current: @readersdigest , @aarp Music: @HeartcoreLab

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in other news: no birds on Sunday, but yes beer & burgers & me doing my level best to stay sane. come on out to Fergie’s & we’ll try together
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why I go to Philly Reddit
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@LWaterbury @aguirreryan “Owners of KittyLand and Catworld Enterprises say they’re comfortable with the administration’s assurances …”
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@GloamHallow ever find yourself waving your hands in front of the faucet at a highway rest stop, trying to get the water to come out? now picture one of these things coming up behind you at 85 mph
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@KevOnStage So they're lining up at the altar to ask for prayers for families & friends: "Just lean in and tell me, we'll pray together, you me & Jesus," says the pastor. They lean in and whisper about the secret drugs/affair/illness ... & we all hear every word cuz he's got the lapel mic on
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@rossgarber @nytimes if you are surprised to learn that not all doctors are medical doctors then i'm not sure why we should rely on your opinion about anything more complicated than toasting bread
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@jenniferkates @bikemamadelphia I love how the people who swim in dark money like carp in a pond can't WAIT to shout "OOOGA BOOOGA THE UNION MUST HAVE PAID FOR THAT" every time somebody says boo about charter schools
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@RexChapman the donors’ judge protecting the donors’ candidate who shares the donors’ mission of drowning government in the bathtub so they can all keep all the money & get more
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@NotNihal @xalopez *mom is temple broker, dad imports sphinxes
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@donmoyn @bariweiss keyword: “whim.” what weiss & co. have shown all along is that they’re completely clueless about power. they see no difference between a complex power arrangement (layers of people guided by process w/systems of accountability) and a simple one (one dude’s feels)
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@RachelMComedy @davenewworld_2 reminds me of the old joke: - how are ya? - ok, on average - on average? - yeah, worse than yesterday, better than tomorrow
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@boatical @kobbykatalyst1 worth mentioning too: the poor guy pays those prices at the rich guy’s company store
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@karlhess then you go home and your mom cooks you dinner and you take a nap
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@JakeAnbinder I'd take it a step further: for this community, **tyranny** exists only in theory. The only time these folks are on the wrong side of power is when it's time to pay their taxes. The allegorical importance of a story like Maus is lost on people with no empowered enemies
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@ReidParker_ i feel seen
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@ElieNYC two cents: the legal profession needs to recognize that the Federalist Society is an enemy of the law. Everything it does is intended to weaken the law, replacing it with the capricious rule of donors' appointees
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@RexChapman we're seeing from the PGA today what we saw from the GOP back in 2016: America's wealthiest and most powerful people will happily team up with the International Axis of Oligarchs if it means a few more dollars in their pockets
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@Deggans plus it’s not like his own show was built on edgy envelope pushing that challenged social boundaries in some now-impermissible way. it was about “nothing”, right?
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@Brendelbored .... AND: it relies on property to embody voice, and in so doing embodies the notion that your property IS your voice. Imagine if they were just walking around carrying signs like the rest of us. Imagine how small we would know them to be
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@ApoclpseStudent I'm writing about HOAs for RD and interviewed a handful of passionate HOA critics who are also HOA homeowners. They were full of horror stories about boards, lawyers etc ... but also said things like, "I'd never live without an HOA, what if your neighbor paints the house purple?"
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Said it a million times: the lowest day in my professional life was covering Sarah Palin, knowing she was talking utter garbage, and knowing that it was all but impossible to file a report for WHYY that said so plainly. Did my best but ...
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Jay Rosen
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"CNN won’t ban guests who have supported the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, but the network will attempt to keep conversations with those people in safe zones of truth, said people familiar with Licht’s thinking."
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@MaxFriedstash heh heh heh heh they gonna lose to the Phils in the playoffs again - book it
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@Phil_Lewis_ notable: his *charter* HS. Why notable? Because if it was a true public school, the public’s representatives - school board, mayor - would have the power to change the policy. But because the school is, in effect, a private contractor, nobody can do shit
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@ettingermentum @jfruh barbie killing it in beauty pageant country
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@Sifill_LDF the Vaclav Havel lesson: absurdity in public = power at work in private. The rulings are ridiculous because they’re not lawful rulings at all; they’re the whims of the unseen Central Committee
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@JakeCorman @SenatorBrewster Pennsylvania voter here: denying Brewster's voters their lawful representative was a sickening display of disregard for the most fundamental rights of American citizens - and the most fundamental duties of public officials.
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if your policy is that attending Pride parades is ok but attending BLM protests is not, then your policy is about the content of your employees' political speech, not whether they should speak at all
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not many commentators have been as square on about all this stuff like @sarahkendzior . Far too many Americans can’t leave the fishtank, only seeing DT in our context. But he makes no real sense until you understand him as a junior member of the international Axis of Oligarchs
@sarahkendzior
Sarah Kendzior
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New @gaslitnation transcript is up! If you prefer reading podcasts to listening, you can read our latest episode, "Donald Trump Is a Terrorist Attack on America", here: And support us on Patreon here:
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@KevOnStage (... was at an evangelical church in Poughkeepsie, years ago - I was a guest. Raised Catholic, it was my first four-hour service. Had the best church band I ever saw, they played the same doom-metal riff for like an hour while people got saved)
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@twothickscoops wild thing i learned about Henson from his son's book: he didn't get into tv because he loved puppets. he got into puppets because he loved TV
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@Phil_Lewis_ & instead of not working they all work
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@fleaskeys @segalmr FWIW: I'm the guy who reads all the jokes that people send to Reader's Digest, and my submitters LOVE that joke and send me versions all the time. Along with the one where that skiier Picabo Street goes to work at a hospital and answers the phone with: "Picabo, ICU."
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@theminardiparty @Biwrestler @BCross052422 I bet a hooker wouldn't take your money
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@JeffSharlet west philly says:
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@JeanneAllen @AbbottElemABC @quintabrunson you come at the queen, you best not miss ... and you missed
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@SLVTLVSTPPP @UsernameLos @abeeecdefG @KamNoScams that subway stink would just keep growing until it got up and walked
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@Popehat Elsewhere on Twitter: "I've worked really hard to avoid my old freshman roommate, but ....."
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@W7VOA surveillance video also shows a visit by a notably agitated bear
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a lot of stuff doesn’t make sense about America, but a big one is that all city schools need fixing, and when they sat almost empty for a whole year we didn’t fix them. contractors could have worked safely long before in-person instruction was safe. but fixing things raises taxes
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raise your hand if someone you love taught you how to shoot a gun
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@RollingStone @BoredApeYC "(Full-disclosure: Rolling Stone just announced a partnership with the Apes and is creating a collectible zine — similar to what the magazine did with Billie Eilish — and NFTs.)" IOW this is an ad, in case you couldn't figure that out from the fact that it's trying to sell shit
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@jacobinmag @BMarchetich if he really wanted to be president, Bernie had one job after 2016, which was to win over Black voters. he didn't do it and he lost and that's really all there is to it
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@TheStalwart funny, i’m reminded of all the school supplies purchased and extra hours worked by all the public school teachers who keep the nation supplied with productive citizens all these years
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@RezekJoe no American ever walked away from more mailbox money than Bill Watterson
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@SpaceLiminalBot yesterday in philly
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@Phil_Lewis_ and won the hearts of about two-thirds of the country
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i mean again it has to be pointed out that he is Stupid. As. Bleep. As if his proposal to dig tunnels under Miami wasn't proof enough
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Thank you for this dank meme, ceo of multiple corporations including this information website and richest guy in the world who of late has been advertising flagrant white nationalism
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@mmasnick @RexChapman two cents: a massive amount of Twitter's credibility & success is based on its institutional users. Media, government, advocates. It's posts & info & attention from THEM that really fuels the discourse. Without their participation, Twitter becomes Reddit real fast
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passing thought: kinky has come a long way. back then all a super freak needed was incense, wine & candles. these days you need unicorn suits, VR goggles and a party shower just to get started
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On this day in 1948 Rick James was born. He would’ve been 74 today (‘Super Freak’ — 1981) …
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@quintabrunson @RBraceySherman @JeanneAllen true story: right now some really REALLY rich donors are hiring some really REALLY bad writers to develop what will inevitably be really REALLY bad charter-based sitcoms
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@jack so you finally noticed huh
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@jason_koebler next the uni is gonna claim ownership and put the thing to work writing brochures and curriculum materials
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@AliVelshi @DavKat43 and funnily enough he’s doing it all with the backing of American oligarchs & American evangelical Christians. Israel is the 51st state & it’s red
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@RexChapman “You can have LIFE - but you can’t have coffee!” i’ve read Russian novels that take six hundred pages to say just this
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@msolurin @mcountryman14 Worth remembering is that "defund" is, in fact, the heart of the GOP platform, and has been since Reagan took office. As Grover Norquist said in 2001: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
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@ElieNYC please remember: it’s the weight of your words that scares them
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reminded: what we saw in PA was that abortion motivates women across generations within households. Why did abortion rights prove popular in Trump-voting working-class white communities? Maybe because moms and grandmoms talk to their daughters ... & vice versa
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Greg Sargent
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A 10-point margin in a state Trump won by less than 1 point is striking. Janet Protasiewicz made inroads in rural Trump areas and youth turnout was way up — due to abortion. I talked to @PollsAndVotes and obtained internal Dem data showing what happened:
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@StraightCrumpin @bigmoodenergy this is the greatest tweet ever tweeted
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@ApoclpseStudent some fun facts: there's like 350k HOAs and about a third are condo towers. Condo HOAs don't turn up in many HOA "horror stories," unless they neglect their maintenance and building falls down (Surfside in FLA). It's in the sprawl-suburbs that lawn/fence/shrub battles get bitter
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@emptywheel wait till they announce that the best way to protect Jews is to privatize Social Security and require prayer in schools
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@willsommer two cents: the donors decided these convoys were useless, & this is what the base looks like when it tries to do stuff without the donors’ help. Without a bunch of money to organize and defend it, the Tea Party protests would have devolved to the same mumbling rubble
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@jh_swanson jack chick comics
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@Sifill_LDF … source. Highly recommended reading; it’s a history his plays, which in context is a history of how dissidents used speech to confront & defeat power. Havel groks that **absurdity is a critical tool of oppression**, and speaking truth the only defense
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@LexerD1986 @pegobry somebody bet him five dollars that he can't read
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@AsteadWesley something to consider: if you're Tucker's age, like me and many media leaders, you've known the Tuckers since they were in their Reagan Clubs in school. you've *always* known they were Apartheidists: protected & unchangeable. looking away became a habit some can't break
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two cents: double the cops, the city wouldn’t be any more attractive to anybody. double the street cleaners, it would be a little more attractive. double the teachers, and people would come in droves. that’s how they sell houses in the suburbs: “great schools”
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Councilmember Jamie Gauthier
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Started off today's #phlbudget hearing by asking the administration how they will position the City of Philadelphia as an employer of choice. To fill vacancies, we need to make the City an attractive place to work!
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My basic theory is that American cops control American mayors, not the other way around. We'll see: "A video circulating on social media that depicts a portion of the incident is very concerning to me, & I will have no further comment until the investigation has been completed."
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Mayor Cherelle L. Parker
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Earlier today, a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper executed a car stop on the Vine Street Expressway in Philadelphia, reportedly for a Motor Vehicle Code violation. Celena Morrison, the City’s executive director of the Office of LGBT Affairs, was in the vehicle that was stopped.
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was driving over a hundred miles an hour. got three months for each person he killed
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BREAKING: Driver sentenced to 1 1/2 years in crash that killed 6 construction workers on Interstate 695: (via @BaltimoreBanner )
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@ksvarnon true story: from philly, i help edit a national magazine’s “nicest places” contest. readers nominated towns; my job was to google for “red flags,” as editors put it. One day: “Just like Mayberry! So friendly!!” read the nomination for Vidor. So I googled “Vidor” …… NEXT
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@StevenTDennis honestly, first thought was, you have a finicky cat
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@jaycaspiankang @edroso real gen xers know that she’s not ours because as you may notice she’s willingly engaged with an institution
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@ThreatNotation it's a bad idea to make fun of anybody with a lot of time on their hands. the biggest difference between pianists and DJs is that there's jobs everywhere for DJs
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@thejtlewis @AlexPattyy "He's allowed." He's allowed to pick his nose and eat it too. In fact he's allowed to pick his nose and give it to you to eat. And you can eat it! You're allowed!
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@tomgara he beats them senseless with a club then pulls off his his McKinsey mask to reveal that he’s been a Pinkerton all along
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@NRO @RichLowry notably absent: an argument justifying the position
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it’s a union-driven scam to prop up a failing roadway, is what it is. drivers have rights & deserve roadway choice. DOT monopoly must end and its budget reworked to support charter highways, travel vouchers, and cybercommutes
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“In November 2000, Zanjeer died of bone cancer at the age of eight years. Due to his impeccable service, he was buried with full state honours.”
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The Better India
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#InternationalDogDay In March 1993, twelve bombs tore apart the city of Mumbai, leaving behind 257 dead and 713 injured. But did you know these numbers could easily have reached the thousands if not for a brave Labrador-Retriever named Zanjeer?
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@davenewworld_2 and being rich and knowing so little about Martha’s Vineyard
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basically: modern Trump is a product of the fall of the Soviets; stolen money flooded real estate and he was just another collapsed tent who got propped up to launder the takings. If the same dynamic is at work in tech they're in trouble
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@ms_christinak @pwnallthethings it’s too long for one tweet sadly
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M'lady found this while canvassing in the Philly suburbs: "Liz Cheney's theory of the case has proven largely correct: There really was a sliver of GOP-leaning voters that could be induced to vote against MAGA candidates if their extremism was highlighted effectively."
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Overlooked story: GOP's awful performance represents major vindication for Liz Cheney. *Virtually all key election deniers running for governor and secretary of state lost *Cheney's chief rival Elise Stefanik made a bet on MAGA that failed disastrously
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@DavidWolfe perhaps you’ve never heard of a train or bus
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@aIisoooon @jfruh try taking Scott Joplin to hear “The Entertainer” ... as played by ice cream trucks
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@LaurenLaCapra TIL “shrimp” is slang for moneygrubbing private equity pirates
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@rico_rants it’s a cargo cult. they saw influencers with blue checks & concluded that blue checks create influence. they built wooden planes and now they’re sitting next to them on the beach waiting for the cargo to come
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.... so a theme for me: after 30 years of journalism & research it's clear. If it's not what conservatives want, they'll sabotage it. The only reason we got some truth from the #January6thHearings is that cons weren't there to bury them garbage. Now here come the garbage trucks
@GregTSargent
Greg Sargent
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If Tony Ornato really wants to respond to Cassidy Hutchinson under oath, great. He can be asked about her *other* claims: Did he tell Meadows and Trump that armed supporters wanted to enter the rally? Did Trump demand to go to the Capitol? Bring it on:
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On this note: the thing to watch in PA, I’m told, is this business of GOP legislators invalidating the whole thing over spurious vote fraud charges and picking their own electors. They’re serious about that one
@GregTSargent
Greg Sargent
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1) Now that Trump mobilized his far right army for a struggle over the results, we need to take the possibility that he'll try to steal the election more seriously. Importantly, Trump again confirmed that he expects SCOTUS to invalidate ballots.
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@thowedoffalil we knew they hated the city when they moved the team to South Carolina. I mean Cobb County
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@PeterTh60616075 @visionsofjoanne you should go to jail and also heaven
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My fave line of the night, from parent/teacher Alexis Zhao: "I seriously wonder if the people who made this plan have actually met a child. Our middle schoolers will scream 'coronavirus!' whenever anyone sneezes, and lick their hands and chase people ... cuz they’re KIDS.” #Phled
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@doctorow not a sign yet but, at my local bike shop:
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@GuyBeinDude as somebody put it: a calculator will always tell you that 2+2=4. But an AI calculator will gladly tell you that 2+2=5, especially if 5 buys a few premium ads or whatever
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@3thirty6halos @israel_qrz @Dubsco agent called this morning: “the coaches know your name, kid. they’re talking about you in the room. keep it up. focus …”
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@robbystarbuck @notviking you’re proof of that
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Bill Hangley Jr
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speaking of subhuman pig people: two minutes is plenty of time to kill something dead
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
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Please arrest Ron Johnson. @FBI @SenRonJohnson
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@joshtpm their guy runs it, their money has the last word. looks to me like the Saudis mugged the PGA in the boys room and sent it back to class with no lunch money and a wedgie that won't clear for week
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